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Title: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Adam Lincoln on April 16, 2008, 06:57:35 pm: Anyone been, looks like i am going next month. Any info at all would be great!
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: r-man on April 16, 2008, 07:10:13 pm: http://www.planetfear.com/product_detail.asp?d_id=8&c_id=85&s_id=792&p_id=8707
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Adam Lincoln on April 16, 2008, 07:32:20 pm: Quote from: r-man on April 16, 2008, 07:10:13 pm
http://www.planetfear.com/product_detail.asp?d_id=8&c_id=85&s_id=792&p_id=8707

Thanks mate, anyone know if its safe to buy stuff off Planetfear now?
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Andy W on April 16, 2008, 07:51:09 pm: Hi

I really rate Kjuge, quiet, woodland setting, lake, god problems. Been twice now. Could be a bit warm in May though!

website http://www.kjuge.nu/kjuge/eng/
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: r-man on April 16, 2008, 10:15:56 pm: Quote from: Adam Lincoln on April 16, 2008, 07:32:20 pm
Quote from: r-man on April 16, 2008, 07:10:13 pm
http://www.planetfear.com/product_detail.asp?d_id=8&c_id=85&s_id=792&p_id=8707

Thanks mate, anyone know if its safe to buy stuff off Planetfear now?

Apparently so:

Quote from: planetfear email thingy
Dear planetFear member,

Welcome back to planetFear.com! Following a transitional period over winter, planetFear has recently been sold. Under its new owners, Ultimate Outdoors... [blah blah etc]
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: runt on April 19, 2008, 11:16:53 pm: Have a look at the swedish meatballs vid if you've not already, and maybe get keen for some of the other swedish areas. Also not on the vid Linkoping and Dalarna (distances very do-able with the mostly empty fast roads) and Aland (quick ferry from kapellskar, cheaper than from stockholm). Have always enjoyed kjuge, but the rock is very dartmoor, will kill your skin and it's not a massive area. The swedes might disagree but lots of other better in sweden areas I reckon.
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: unclesomebody on July 24, 2008, 07:05:48 pm: I think I'm going to head over to Denmark/Sweden next weekend so I want some info on the best shit out there. I think I'll spend sat/sun around Kjugekull or wherever is best. I found this photo of Lamiche (beast!) doing this 7C+ (ss 8A+) and it looks pretty good! Can someone point me in the right direction? Do I need a guidebook or can I walk around until I see something immense?

thanks

http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg (http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg)

hotlink won't work.
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: slackline on July 24, 2008, 07:19:14 pm: Quote from: unclesomebody on July 24, 2008, 07:05:48 pm
I found this photo of Lamiche (beast!) doing this 7C+ (ss 8A+) and it looks pretty good!
http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg (http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg)

:o Thats not a boulder problem, its a route!!!
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: jwi on July 24, 2008, 09:28:33 pm: Quote from: unclesomebody on July 24, 2008, 07:05:48 pm
I think I'm going to head over to Denmark/Sweden next weekend so I want some info on the best shit out there. I think I'll spend sat/sun around Kjugekull or wherever is best. I found this photo of Lamiche (beast!) doing this 7C+ (ss 8A+) and it looks pretty good! Can someone point me in the right direction? Do I need a guidebook or can I walk around until I see something immense?

thanks

http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg (http://bp2.blogger.com/_LHb91jBCN44/R4-PeO7dhXI/AAAAAAAAAEA/jjDBAySBj-M/s1600-h/016kjuge.jpg)

hotlink won't work.

If my memory serves me right ( I spent a whopping two days there in 2001 ) just follow the path pass the cafe and then left through some woods and a few meadows. There are a few other very well known problems in the vicinity: "Caspersen's arete", 7A+, (the arete on the other boulder formed when the big boulder splitted) and "Monolith", 7A. Surely any boulderer you encounter would be able to direct you to those problems.

I suppose you have seen this:

http://www.rockclimber.org/kjuge.nu/suede.wmv (http://www.rockclimber.org/kjuge.nu/suede.wmv)

(Lamiche and Nadrian in Kjuge)
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: n_man on July 25, 2008, 12:43:57 am: Check out the Rock and Run website I am reasonably sure they have an 'X-file' article (via the blog) on the place. Would post link but I'm having phishing issues with my browser.
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Houdini on July 25, 2008, 11:12:20 am: Quote from: unclesomebody on July 24, 2008, 07:05:48 pm
I think I'm going to head over to Denmark/Sweden.

What do you know of Danish climbing? Is there any / have you found any? Links etc.. ?
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: webbo on July 25, 2008, 11:51:11 am: this was on c.t.
http://bornholm.danskbjergklub.dk/pages/index.php?textld=7 (http://bornholm.danskbjergklub.dk/pages/index.php?textld=7)
never climbed over there but went camping there with the boy sprouts in 1966.
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Houdini on July 25, 2008, 11:54:04 am: Poor quality granite then. But there'll be more I guess. Assuming it hasn't metamorphosed mica or wtf. '66 was eons ago . . .
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: unclesomebody on July 25, 2008, 12:16:21 pm: I'm not planning on climbing in Denmark, only arriving in Copenhagen because that's where my friend lives. We're probably going to head to Kjuge for the weekend, so this isn't a climbing trip per se.

I found the article on the rock/run website, and I have seen that video by Juju. That's what gave me the motivation to want to go!

Thanks for the info JWI. At least I have some names to ask for now!
Title: Re: kjugekul (Sweden)
Post by: Andy W on July 25, 2008, 02:48:29 pm: If you haven't allready seen this http://www.kjuge.nu/kjuge/eng/ (http://www.kjuge.nu/kjuge/eng/) should help, although the warm temps won't.